Salinity-related variation in gene expression in wild populations of the black-chinned tilapia from various West African coastal marine,estuarine and freshwater habitats |
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| Authors: | Mbaye Tine David J McKenzie François Bonhomme Jean-Dominique Durand |
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| Institution: | 1. Biologie Intégrative ISEM CNRS-UMR 5554 (Université Montpellier II), Station Méditerranéenne de l’Environnement Littoral, 1 quai de la Daurade, Sète 34200, France;2. ECOLAG UMR 5119 (IRD), route des hydrocarbures, BP 1386, 18524 Dakar, Senegal;3. Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestrasse 63-73, D-14195 Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | This study measured the relative expression of the genes coding for Na+, K+-ATPase 1α(NAKA), voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC), cytochrome c oxidase-1 (COX), and NADH dehydrogenase (NDH), in gills of six wild populations of a West African tilapia species, acclimatised to a range of seasonal (rainy or dry) salinities in coastal, estuarine and freshwater sites. Previous laboratory experiments have demonstrated that these genes, involved in active ion transport, oxidative phosphorylation, and intra-cellular ATP transport, are relatively over-expressed in gill tissues of this species acclimated to high salinity. Positive correlations between relative expression and ambient salinity were found for all genes in the wild populations (Spearman rank correlation, p < 0.05), although for some genes these were only significant in either the rainy season or dry season. Most significantly, however, relative expression was positively correlated amongst the four genes, indicating that they are functionally interrelated in adaptation of Sarotherodon melanotheron to salinity variations in its natural environment. In the rainy season, when salinity was unstable and ranged between zero and 37 psu across the sites, overall mean expression of the genes was higher than in the dry season, which may have reflected more variable particularly sudden fluctuations in salinity and poorer overall water quality. In the dry season, when the salinity is more stable but ranged between zero and 100 psu across the sites, NAKA, NDH and VDAC expression revealed U-shaped relationships with lowest relative expression at salinities approaching seawater, between 25 and 45 psu. Although it is not simple to establish direct relationship between gene expression levels and energy requirement for osmoregulation, these results may indicate that costs of adaptation to salinity are lowest in seawater, the natural environment of this species. While S. melanotheron can colonise environments with extremely high salinities, up to 100 psu, this was related to high relative expression for all genes studied, indicating that this imposes increased energy demand for osmotic homeostasis in gill tissues. This study is the first to demonstrate, in fish and in wild populations, that expression of NAKA, VDAC, NDH and COX are interrelated in gill tissues, and are involved in long-term acclimatisation to a salinity range between 0 and 100 psu. |
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| Keywords: | fish estuary cytochrome c oxydase-1 NADH dehydrogenase Na+&ndash K+-ATPase voltage-dependent anion channel Sarotherodon melanotheron |
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